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"No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves."
- John Peter Zenger
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| | The Emperor's New Mind:
Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
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| | by Roger Penrose
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ZIN Product Number: 10024948
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 460 pages
Publisher: Viking Penguin
ISBN: 0140145346
Release Date: Jan 3, 1999
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | In Brief
In this book Penrose "puts forward his view that there are some facetsof human thinking that can never be emulated by a machine. . . . {The author}examines what {he believes} physics and mathematics can tell us about how themind works, what they can't, and what we need to know to understand the physical processes of consciousness. In particular, he argues that there is an important gap in our knowledge at the place where classical and quantum physics meet. . . . He concludes that laws even deeper than quantum mechanics are essential for the operation of a mind." (Publisher's note) Bibliography. Index.
| | | | From The Publisher
In The Emporer's New Mind, eminent physicist Roger Penrose argues that there are facets of human thinking, of human imagination, that can never be emulated by a machine. Exploring a dazzling array of topics--complex numbers, black holes, entropy, quasicrystals, the structure of the brain, and the physical processes of consciousness--Penrose demonstrates that laws even more wondrously complex than those of quantum mechanics are essential for the operation of a mind.
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In the readition of the bestselling Chaos and A Brief History of Time, here is a science book with mainstream appeal. Proponents of artificial intelligence maintain that eventually a computer will be able to do everything a human mind can do, but Oxford University Professor of Mathematics Roger Penrose explains his view that there are facets of human thinking that can never be emulated by a machine. Drawings throughout.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 1 Average Rating:
An Amazing Book
-- A reviewer, from Washington, DC, April 7, 2000
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
A brilliant and controversial scientific argument on the nature of the mind, its relation to the laws of physics, and why computers may prove unable to duplicate its workings. "It is a book that I believe will become a classic...Penrose is one of an increasingly large band of physicists who think Einstein was not being stubborn or muddle-headed when he said his 'little finger' told him that quantum mechanics is incomplete. To support this contention, Penrose takes you on a dazzling tour that covers such topics as complex numbers, Turing machines, complexity theory, the bewildering paradoxes of quantum mechanics, formal systems, Gdel undecidability, phrase spaces, Hilbert spaces, black holes, white holes, Hawking radiation, entropy, the structure of the brain, and scores of other topics at the heart of current speculations"--Martin Gardner
| |  | | | | Prologue | 1 | | 1 | Can a Computer have a Mind? | 3 | | 2 | Algorithms and Turing Machines | 40 | | 3 | Mathematics and Reality | 98 | | 4 | Truth, Proof, and Insight | 129 | | 5 | The Classical World | 193 | | 6 | Quantum Magic and Quantum Mystery | 291 | | 7 | Cosmology and the Arrow of Time | 391 | | 8 | In Search of Quantum Gravity | 450 | | 9 | Real Brains and Model Brains | 483 | | 10 | Where Lies the Physics of Mind? | 523 | | Epilogue | 583 | | References | 584 | | Index | 596 |
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